Under the wave of Kanagawa

Under the wave of Kanagawa coloured by Charlie

Under the wave of Kanagawa made by (kanagawa oki nami ura)

I chose to change the blue colours to make them darker so you get the feel of a stormy day and the volcano is different as well to match the dark colours.

 

Tech Masks

The last two weeks for sewing tech we have been creating our own masks with our own material. My material had swimming trout on it. Although it was quite big for me they were fun to make. Hand sewing on the elastic was definitly the toughest part to put around your ears.
Here they are!

Music beats

This week our focus for cybersmart was creating our very own music! We were exploring the cool tunes and beats of soundtrap, I found it hard to find music matching the picture I chose. I chose pictures of stags roaring so I tried my best to make my music sound right! Here is mine!

Scissor power

Today in sewing tech with Anne we were preparing to go on camp to Mt Ruapehu by making fluro hats to wear on the ski field.  We make fluro hats so our teachers can see which ones we are on the mountain. We started by marking out the measurments for the hats with a warm material, then released the power of scissors. We cut out about 50 of them and then went on to the fluro colours like pink orange and yellow. We will sew the hats together next week!

Da Beats

Today With Mrs Torrie we were learning to create our own music on Incredibox! I really like my one but next time I would have more singers in it rather than beatboxers. I recomed this to people who love music and beatboxing! Have you ever used this app before You will enjoy it.

Listen to my music mix Here

Genuis hour

Today For genuis hour, me and Blake did a piece of art work. It didn't come out quite as we thought but I am still happy with it. By following a youtube video and using a comb and masking tape we made this piece. Using only 5 colours.

Cricket

At the moment in class we are doing a decade study. We choose one area of interest, things like, sport, music or dance. I picked the evolution of cricket. To show how things have changed since cricket was first invented.

GIF about yeast

Today I was learning how to make a GIF on Google slides about yeast. 

I enjoyed Moving the images around the slide.
I found it challenging to find pictures as that I was allowed to use and the right things.
My digital learning object shows I can make a GIF on google slides
Next time I would change the pictures that I used.

Sam Cane

Today's work with Mrs Allan was to look on Kiwi Kids news and find one of the recent articles that interested us. I chose Sam Cane, becoming our new All Black captain. We took notes from the text on Kiwi Kids News and then made it into this out of the notes.

The duck

Skipping

Today with Mrs Allan we were doing skipping I have never done it before. I found it really hard to run in and start jumping but I have got the knack and can keep jumping for ages. Now we have to try and do double dutch.the double dutch is a lot harder because you have to jump in, you can't just start in the middle.

bull riding Animation

Today with Mrs Torrie we did a animation about anything we wanted on google slides. Have you ever made a animation on google slides. Next time I would have the bull and the rider separate so he could fall of. This is still a work in progress we are going to try and add audio in.

Best lock down moments!

This year Covid-19 has forced NZ to go into lock down stuck with our family's. We are finally back at school and we are reflecting on our best moments in lock down.

The big bull

Lightning

Our topic work this week has been around lightning as our horse was recently stuck by lightning and sadly died. We were challenged to make a poster and find interesting facts.. here is mine!

Random Word Challenge

The random word selected from my novel 'The Power of One' was 'killed'.

Creative writing - Razor Back Jnr

Roaring Red Stags

These are two videos from April 2020 of red stags roaring at their very best! We recorded this footage with our Canon camera.

RUBY

Anzac day

The Roar

Pinwheel scones

Today is the first day back at school and its a Wednesday. That's our normal Tech day so I thought I could do Tech at home. Our Tech  teacher said that she would send us a recipe to do each week, if you have the ingredients to make it. Today she shared a recipe for cinnamon pinwheel scones. I carefully followed the steps in the method and they came out really well. We all enjoyed them with our lunch!

Making a hut

Last week my brother, sister and I went onto our farm in a paddock called 'Top Terrace'. We made a hut and then made a fire outside. There was also a stag roaring next to us but we couldn't see him. 

Have you ever made a hut out on your farm?

tech

This week at cooking tech we had to do an invention test just like on Master Chef
where you get given anonymous ingredients and you have to make something
with those ingredients only! Our two mystery ingredients were eggs and apples!
I made apple and cinnamon pancakes with apple maple syrup and brown sugar topping!
They were delicious.

Blog Post graph

Today I was learning how to make a graph on google sheets about how many blog posts we had done.

I enjoyed customising the graph to how I wanted it.

I found it challenging to get the graph on to my blog.

My digital learning object shows I can make a graph on google sheets.

Next time I would change how I made it.

Ice cream

This week 3 in Tech we were going to make Ice Cream! We had to create a flavour that we liked and that we could get the ingredients for. One ingredient needed to be fresh. I made ambrosia ice cream with berries that I picked at my home. We added marshmallows and chocolate chips. We made a poster using 'poster my wall' to advertise our ice cream. This was my first time using it
and it was fun to make a poster.

My pepeha

Today in cybersmart we made a virtual tour of of our Pepeha, we used tour builder to make a video of our Pepeha and then used screencastify so we could put it on our blogs. It was really challenging for me to make a tour builder but I got it at the end. My next steps are to ad talking to the screencastify.

Room ones sun flowers

This year the room one class planted some cool tall sunflowers so we decided to recreate them on paper with paint. We also write some creative poems about them. Here is my one.

Sunflowers, big, tall and bold. 

Standing staunch like a line of soldiers against the fence. 

Looking like mini suns standing on top of a stem.

Headlights beaming rays of light.

Some bending down, hiding there faces,

from the giant leader,

High up in the sky.

ME!

Kia Ora I am Charlie, I am a year 8 student at Matawai school an hour out of Gisborne. I live on a farm with my Mum and Dad with two siblings. We have a cat, a pet spaniel and 12 working dogs. 


At school I love writing about things on the farm and hunting. I enjoy reading books about adventures, hunting, and war stories. My challenges are maths trying to keep on learning new hard stuff. My goal this year is to run at the aims Games in Tauranga and improve time and place from last year.


I am looking forward to playing my favourite sport rugby, I play for Ngatapa in the under 13's team. I am inspired by Ryan Crotty and George Bridge. I also love playing cricket and watching the Black Caps.